State of Agile Development Survey Results The fifth annual “State of Agile Development” survey was conducted between August 11 and October 31, 2010. Sponsored by VersionOne, respondents were recruited from mailing lists, websites and other software development industry fora. The survey data includes information from 4,770 participants from 91 countries. The data was analyzed and prepared into a summary report by Analysis.Net Research, an independent survey consultancy.

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Agile in the Enterprise

AGILE ADOPTION

The median size of development organizations was 80.

Current Company Position

WHO DECIDES

Initial champions of agile methods are found in the management layer 80% of the time.

  • VP/Dir. Of Development
  • Development Manager
  • Project Manager
  • CIO/CTO
  • Team Lead
  • Developer
  • President/CEO/COO
  • Architect
  • Product Manager
  • Consultant/Trainer
  • Other
  • IT Staff
  • QA/Tester
Current Company Position
90%

of respondents worked in organizations that used agile development practices to some degree

65%

of respondents worked in companies with distributed development teams

HOW MANY TEAMS ADOPTED AGILE?

Companies are scaling their agile initiatives - 29% of respondents work at companies with 10+ agile teams.

How many teams adopted agile?
  • 0-5 TEAMS
  • 5-10 TEAMS
  • 10-25 TEAMS
  • 25+ TEAMS

NUMBER OF SEPARATE SITES/LOCATIONS USING AGILE

Most companies had only 1 to 2 sites using agile.

How many teams adopted agile?
  • 0-2
  • 2-5
  • 5-10
  • 10+

PERCENTAGE OF COMPANY'S PROJECTS USING AGILE

About half of projects in respondents' companies use agile.

Precentage of company's projects using agile
  • 0-20%
  • 20-50%
  • 50-95%
  • 95-100%
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Jeromy Wilson,
Director of Product Management,
Alpha Bay Corporation

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